Federal Agencies Unveil R&D Dashboard

Several federal agencies have joined forces to launch a new beta website that allows individuals to look at U.S. federal investments in science and engineering from two agencies — the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). The R&D dashboard gives users the ability to search and download data on grants issued by the federal government to research institutions (investments) and on output activities (e.g., patents and publications) from federally funded research by state, congressional district and research institution. Users also may search investments and outputs by select topic areas at the same geographic levels of detail.

A requirement of the 2002 eGov Act, the government intends for the full version of the website to include data from all federal R&D spending. It also would expand information on outputs of federally funded research. The public is encouraged to review the beta site and provide feedback. Visit the website at: http://rd-dashboard.nitrd.gov/.